From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric Schulte" Subject: Re: [babel] passing strings in Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:48:15 -0600 Message-ID: <87wrx041z4.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87eij8whoa.fsf@cuma.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87ljdgjsr2.fsf@gmail.com> <87ljdgxs6s.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> <87bpecxl2j.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nut2Y-000221-3D for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:48:26 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50067 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nut2V-000219-Uf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:48:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nut2S-000199-Lx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:48:23 -0400 Received: from mail-px0-f191.google.com ([209.85.216.191]:58523) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nut2S-000194-Gr for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:48:20 -0400 Received: by pxi29 with SMTP id 29so4459060pxi.7 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:48:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87bpecxl2j.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> (Dan Davison's message of "Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:23:00 -0400") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Dan Davison Cc: maurizio.vitale@polymath-solutions.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Dan Davison writes: > Dan Davison writes: > [...] >> Hi Eric, >> >> Thanks for the much better answer. I think my vote goes for your second >> option. > > Actually, although I think what I said below is valid, it's much less > obvious what a good solution is because I completely ignored the > (common) possibility of referring to a table: > > :var x=tablename > > In that case it is less appealing, although a possibility, to demand > that we write :var x=tablename() [1] > My problem with this path is that then we can't pass a string value into a variable in which the last two characters are "(" and ")" because it would be interpreted as a reference. I'm liking the current solution at http://eschulte.github.com/babel-dev/DONE-literal-values-from-tables.html Cheers -- Eric